Chris Gelardi

Hunger makes life hell for Gaza's journalists It's impossible to concentrate when your stomach is empty.

"How would I flee when I can't even finish a sentence?"

"My body has become weak over these months, losing 7 kilograms."

"I couldn't bring myself to tell my editors the truth – that I was starving. Instead, I blamed the internet connection."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

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Summers Are Brutal in New York’s Prisons. This Year Is Worse Than… Short-staffed since a strike this winter, the prison system is keeping people locked in their boiling cells and dorms for upwards of 21 hours a day.

Thousands in New York state prisons are left in scorching cells for 20+ hours a day as the system continues to grapple with the effects this winter's guard strike.

“You have no sense of relief. ... You’re just sitting in a cell, baking.”

New in @nysfocus.bsky.social:

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An affidavit in the case revealed that investigators used surveillance video that caught grainy images of a man picking up and throwing rocks outside the front door of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on June 14. The man was dressed in dark clothing, his face obscured by a gas mask with a barely visible tattoo on his left forearm, the video showed. Investigators then found a photo of what appeared to be the same man that ran with an Oregonian/OregonLive story online that showed the man’s face and a tattoo of a vine of leaves on his left arm, according to the affidavit. The FBI entered that photo into “commercially available facial recognition software” used by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the affidavit said. The software provided 30 possible comparison photos culled from various public databases, including one from a Reed College photo-sharing page of “Canyon Day” from April 2023 that showed a man of similar build and appearance with the identical tattoo, the affidavit said. The software also turned up an Instagram account with a profile that revealed the man’s name, “Jacob Hoopes,” according to the affidavit. The FBI contacted Reed College’s community safety director and obtained alumni information on Hoopes, the affidavit said.

this is so fucking creepy www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

State Cops Quietly Tag Thousands as Gang Members — and Feed Their Names to ICE Gang databases are often racially biased and riddled with errors. States and cities send their flawed information to ICE.

Police gang databases are speculative, barely regulated, and notoriously faulty — a perfect tool for officials seeking to imply criminality without due process.

Many — hundreds of thousands of entries — are shared directly with ICE.

New in @theintercept.com:
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I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards.

Maybe ICE will finally be able to afford badges and uniforms.

'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...

NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.

Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:

Will NY Dems Choose Disgraced Figures of the Past or a Zohran Mamdani Future? The party has a choice between boosting a candidate who vows to freeze the rent and resurrecting the careers of Eric Adams or Andrew Cuomo.

You could almost feel the pain in statements from Jeffries and Schumer on Mamdani. The next big question in NYC is: will NY Dems suck it up and unite behind him? "Congratulating a candidate is not the same as endorsing them." from
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It’s Primary Day in NYC. Over the last few months, we’ve been reporting on the money behind some of the candidates on your primary ballot.

A thread: 💸

Stephen Miller’s Financial Stake in ICE Contractor Palantir Over a dozen Trump appointees in the White House and Department of Homeland Security have owned stock in the controversial company raising privacy concerns across the political spectrum.

🚨 NEW from me: Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's immigration crackdown, has a financial stake of up to a quarter million dollars in Palantir, a key ICE contractor. Experts cite conflict of interest concerns

Read it @pogo.org:

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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul speaking at NYPA’s Niagara Power Project, 6/23/2025

⚠️ Hochul announces that she has tasked the New York Power Authority with building “at least one” new nuclear plant, generating 1 GW or more of energy by 2040. Would be NY’s first new nuclear plant in 40+ years

Analysis: US strikes mark a stunning demonstration of military might and presidential power

I can’t fucking believe we’re doing this.

House War Powers Resolution Thomas Massie (R-KY) Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) Joaquin Castro (D-TX) Stephen Lynch (D-MA) Ro Khanna (D-CA) Delia Ramirez (D-IL) Mark Takano (D-CA) Andre Carson (D-IN) Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) Chellie Pingree (D-ME) Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Mark Pocan (D-WI) Hank Johnson (D-GA) Maxwell Frost (D-FL) Don Beyer (D-VA) Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) Al Green (D-TX) Greg Casar (D-TX) Paul Tonko (D-NY) Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) Debbie Dingell (D-MI) Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) Becca Balint (D-VT) Mike Thompson (D-CA) Jamie Raskin (D-MD) Chuy Garcia (D-IL) Chris Deluzio (D-PA) Yasmin Ansari (D-AZ) Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) Val Hoyle (D-OR) Veronica Escobar (D-TX) Bennie Thompson (D-MS) Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) Gwen Moore (D-WI) Lou Correa (D-CA) Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM) Summer Lee (D-PA) Lateefah Simon (D-CA) Betty McCollum (D-MN) Diana DeGette (D-CO) Jim McGovern (D-MA) Sara Jacobs (D-CA) Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Betty McCollum (D-MN) Mark Desaulnier (D-CA) Senate War Powers Resolution - Tim Kaine (D-VA) - Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Senate No War Against Iran Act - Bernie Sanders (I-VT) - Peter Welch (D-VT) - Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) - Jeff Merkley (D-OR) - Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) - Ed Markey (D-MA) - Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) - Tina Smith (D-MN)

UPDATE: At least *60* members of Congress have now signed on to efforts against the Trump-Vance admin's war on Iran.

59 Democrats. 1 Republican.

After the attack, Democratic leader Chuck Schumer announced support for the War Powers Act and is urging all senators to vote for it.

Under trump 1, shaheen sponsored war powers legislation aimed at barring the administration from assisting in the saudi assault on and blockade of yemen without congressional authorization. Now that trump 2 has fully bombed iran, she's asking for a "brief" to congress.

Self-Proclaimed “Peacemaker” Drags U.S. Into Another War Heeding the request of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump dispatched U.S. warplanes to bomb Iran.

Self-Proclaimed “Peacemaker” President Drags U.S. Into Another War

Heeding the request of Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump bombed Iran.

Former Pentagon official predicts the U.S. may be entering into a new round of the Forever Wars.

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Banger analysis of past, present, and future.

"Remember that this war did not start today. It started in 1953."

"An Iran that ... fractures into ethnically driven statelets serves Israel's goals, and that will sound more pleasing to American ears than the prospect of an occupation."

War on Terror Nightmare Arrives As Trump Bombs Iran Just want to congratulate everyone who said Trump was the president of peace, didn't start any new wars, etc. Is there an antiwar party in America?

Of course he was going to bomb Iran.

Is there an antiwar party in the U.S.?

Democratic congressional candidate in Chicago:

i hate this country

40,000 US troops in the Middle East right now & any lingering faith that Iran + allies in Iraq, Yemen & beyond had in Trump’s dealmaking instincts is now shattered. Very hard to imagine Tehran agreeing with Trump that peace will now come; more likely they perceive an all-out war for regime survival.

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NEW MCMANSION HELL on what may be the ugliest house i've ever seen mcmansionhell.com/post/7868373...

With Trump now suggesting there's a 2-week window for diplomacy, Netanyahu may play a role he’s perfected over years: a spoiler.

While Israel can’t hit Fordow alone, it has other options for escalation that complicate talks for Iran + DC. Bibi’s US ambassador has spoken of a big Thurs/Fri attack.

Democrats Ambivalent On Trump's Possible War Despite It Being Deeply Unpopular Progressives want a vote on the president’s war powers while many Democrats are keeping quiet.

There's nothing that Congress loves more than forfeiting its warmaking powers to the president. Doing so has been a longstanding bipartisan project, and the country deserves a better opposition party than one ready to go along with an Iraq War redux. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.

Senator @jabaribrisport.bsky.social calls for a special session to remedy the fact that the state legislature has ended for the year without passing immigration protections.

This solicitation sounds very much like ICE is trying to deploy its own souped up "predictive policing" apparatus via continued surveillance of up to a million people. Real Minority Report shit.

New York Police Agencies Train Officers on a Discredited Medical… Documents show that six county sheriffs’ offices and two state agencies have recently included excited delirium in their training.

Though the Senate passed it, the Assembly closed out its annual session without voting on a bill to make New York the fourth state to ban citation of "excited delirium" syndrome, which medical experts decry as dubious justification for police violence.
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That's at least two promised war powers resolutions — the other from gop rep massie. But would it do anything? Biden and trump together rendered war powers essentially meaningless.